“The vaccination site at Forest Hill is provided by UCT on university property but it will be totally run by the provincial department of health. “We are hoping that our vaccination site, which will be at Forest Hill … in Mowbray, will be all set up so that by 1 September, when we are allowed to vaccinate people over 18, we will be ready because a lot of our students would fall into that category,” said Emeritus Associate Professor Coetzee.
The vaccination site is expected to serve both the university and the broader public as a resource for the Western Cape Department of Health.
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Plans for a new vaccination site at the university’s Forest Hill residence are in full swing, with doors set to open in a matter of weeks. “The vaccine is very effective against getting severe disease and against hospitalisation and ICU and against death,” he said. This is often people who were incubating COVID‑19 already when they went for the vaccine, and that is why we are particularly careful about asking people about signs and symptoms of cold and flu to make sure that they are not incubating COVID‑19 when they get the vaccine. “We are learning that there is a lot of fake news going about a lot of people saying you get COVID‑19 once you get the vaccine. Emer Assoc Prof David Coetzee works on COVID‑19 projects in the office of UCT’s Chief Operating Officer, Dr Reno Morar.Įmeritus Associate Professor David Coetzee, a public health specialist who works in the office of the university’s Chief Operating Officer on COVID‑19 projects, said that during the implementation of the vaccination programme, they had learnt that fake news is a threat.
I think there will be chances of infecting my colleagues and visitors to our office as well,” added Stuurman. She comes into contact with parents and students regularly for her work, putting her at risk of infection. I am nervous because me and needles are not friends at all,” said Stuurman. I decided to come today because it is important to do this. “I had a lot of family members who died from COVID‑19.
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My colleagues in my office where I work are actually all vaccinated already.”Ī friendly team at the vaccination site guided UCT workers through screening, vaccine registration checks, and then to a waiting area spaced out to social distance protocols.įees Office customer liaison assistant Nthabiseng Stuurman said she was scared but death close to her led to the decision to be vaccinated. “I am in contact with students and lecturers, so it is obviously going to give me peace of mind that I don’t have to feel that I am under that much stress anymore. Within her current role at the university, Dykes needs to go into work every day. I’m also a mother of kids, so for me, there is no other option – I need to get vaccinated.” “If you just look at the number of people that are dying, and when you are faced with that every day, the choice is very simple. “I come from a coloured, Christian community and there is a huge cohort of people who don’t feel the vaccine is the way to go … You hear stories and you watch videos about people having strange reactions, so obviously that puts a little bit of doubt in your mind,” she said. She described the weeks building up to this moment as a stressful time, during which many people died. What most of the recipients agreed was that they were doing this for their safety, the safety of their families and those around them and to improve their working lives.Ĭandice Dykes, 37, is an administrator at UCT’s Faculty of Health Sciences and comes into contact with students and academic staff daily. Some were nervous, scared and doubtful while others were unfazed by needles or vaccine rumours.
Each recipient received a ticket number at the vaccination site.Īmid an atmosphere of slight nerves, staff members took ticket numbers and proceeded to allocated cubicles to receive the long‑awaited jabs. Although it was a large gathering, air flow in the hall, sanitisers and masks were the order of the day. UCT provided Jammie Shuttle transportation to the Pinelands EMS site every 30 minutes on 2 and 3 August.Ĭoincidentally, these workers were being vaccinated next door to the Biovac Institute, which is set to start manufacturing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine later this year.Ī friendly team at the vaccination site guided the university workers through screening, vaccine registration checks, and then to a waiting area spaced out to social distance protocols.
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